The Silicon Valley Project of Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Chinese Faculty and Family Club (SCFFC) are pleased to announce a special seminar featuring Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University, and Cofounder of Coursera.

There have been some exciting new advances on understanding how we learn and how we teach effectively.

About the speaker

Andrew Ng is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, the main AI research organization at Stanford, with 15 professors and about 150 students/post docs.

Ng is also a cofounder of Coursera, which offers online courses from top universities for free.  Ng's goal is to give everyone in the world access to a high quality education for free. Today, with over 80 university and other partners and and nearly 400 courses, Coursera partners with top universities and is the largest MOOC platform in the world.

In addition to his work on online education, Ng’s work at Stanford is on machine learning, with an emphasis on deep learning. His previous work includes autonomous helicopters, the STanford AI Robot (STAIR) project, and ROS (the most widely used open-source robotics software platform today). He also founded and led a project at Google to develop massive-scale deep learning algorithms, leading to the famous “Google Cat” result in which a massive neural network with one billion parameters learned, from unlabeled YouTube, a cat detector. Ng is the author or co-author of over 150 published papers in machine learning, and his group has won best paper/best student paper awards at ICML, ACL, CEAS, 3DRR.

He is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the 2009 IJCAI Computers and Thought award, one of the highest honors in AI. In 2008, Ng was featured in MIT's Technology Review TR35, a list of "35 remarkable innovators under the age of 35".  In 2013, Time named him to the annual list of its 100 most influential people of the world.